How can a 21st-century visual artist, who seldom leaves the confines of his studio, become a 19th-century plein-air painter who seeks out his subjects in the great outdoors?
Kunstmuseum Luzern opens first comprehensive solo exhibition dedicated to Rinus Van de Velde s work
Installation view of Rinus Van de Velde. Id rather stay at home, , Kunstmuseum Luzern, 2021. Photo: Marc Latzel.
LUCERNE
.- Rinus Van de Velde ( 1983) tells fictional autobiographical stories by means of large format charcoal drawings, three-dimensional cardboard worlds, films, photographs, coloured-pencil drawings and ceramics. Hovering between reality and fiction, imperfect heroes inhabit his works, high-minded researchers and lanky tennis players in long hotel corridors.
With Id rather stay at home, the Kunstmuseum Luzern is devoting a first comprehensive solo exhibition to the Belgian artist Rinus Van de Velde. At the heart of the presentation are the videos The Villagers (20192020) and La Ruta Natural (20192021). The Villagers tells the stories of various protagonists linked by a mountain village and rainy weather: one adventurer roasts his suckling pig in the w